“The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.”–Robert Collier
People wonder why I spend so much time on visioning, but to me it’s a fundamental element of setting and reaching goals. You have to be able to imagine, to see in your head, what success looks like. Then you can begin to figure out that steps you need to take to get there, and start taking those steps one at a time.
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You know, I can see that. The usefulness of vision and planning. I have the same problem with it that I have with chess, however. Looking more than one or two moves ahead, and my mind boggles at the permutations. Bits go blank, and I have trouble seeing how the pieces move together. Is there a GTD fix for that?
It’s like writing a mystery; start at the end and work backward. What does success look like? Then take inventory of what current reality looks like, and figure out the map to get from A to B.
Thanks. That’s what I’m trying to do, but there’s a struggle to clearly envision the desired future. The bits that don’t look like what I’ve already got are hard to grasp. There are all kinds of things in my past and current thinking that contribute to that (such as the perennial conviction that I don’t deserve my best possible future, or that the needs of others right now outweigh my future interests), but you aren’t my therapist.